Vegas to the Grand Canyon

G'day

Having woken at around midday feeling very much worse for wear after a weekend of CENSORED, CENSORED and CENSORED we were well satisfied that we had "done Vegas" though certain members of the touring party may have more accurately concluded that Vegas had done them.

After a typically healthy breakfast/lunch of fast food we gathered the newest member of our touring party Nick "Hippo" Zeltzer, a friend of mine from Mac Bank, loaded up the close to overflowing TRAILBLAZER, and hit the road for the Grand Canyon.

The definite highlight of the trip was driving across Hoover Dam, which the Wonderboy was quick to tell us, is one of the 7 industrial wonders of the world. We suspect the reason he knows this is that he was a part of the construction team, but regardless, he certainly was knowledgeable.

This also marked our departure from Nevada which was welcomed by all, though did cost us an hour as we changed time-zones.

As we cruised through the Arizona desert, we were impressed by the increasing number of cacti, but were a little worried as it got colder and colder and darker and darker.

Eventually, despite Carl's attempts to send us way off course with his unique brand of spatial logic, Emily managed to find her way to the Grand Canyon, by which time it was very dark, very cold and soon to start snowing.

Thankfully, the Maswik Lodge was warm, dry, had food and was cheap(ish) - though god knows what the manager thought of us when the four of us checked into a room with two double beds...

Thankfully. that was about it for the night as the boundless enthusiasm of Wonders had decreed that we would all get up bright and early for sunrise the following morning - what's with old people and getting up early?

That's all for now.

Hope you're all safe and well.

Jez